Part vanity, part that I've come to enjoy the exertion and part socializing. Eclipsing them all is that I want to have enough of a bodily overcapacity to be able to handle as much fuckery as possible that life throws at me. Injury prevention.
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I started exercising regularly when I had kids so I can hopefully avoid dropping dead before they're grown.
That sounds like a good reason!
Pure ego.
The health desire is good and all, it was the reason I lost 35kg. But now its because I want to be a sexy dad, I want other dads to say "Jesus I dont know how you do it!", I want other Moms to be just a little bit jealous of my wife and I want my wife to be just a little bit worried about the thirsty ass single moms at school pickup.
I got "In shape" now it really is an exercise in vanity, and I'm ok with that.
I envy the motivation you have.
I don't even have that level of commitment to the things that i love, let alone maintenance.
Learning to love the process is hard, once you do, getting knocked off your routine is annoying.
Lmao I can somewhat relate to the "sexy dad" thing, I've noticed that lately I've been happy to look at mirror and be like "dude you're starting to look good!" and that's not something I've ever done in my life before 😅
I don't care about physique. I was in race shape, crits, and fought 2 SUVs 11 years ago...at the same time. They were both total losses, but the broken neck and back sucked. I fall apart if I quit; the pain is much worse on the bad days, and I can't sleep at all. That is all that motivates me any more. I need to be around 190 lbs to be pretty, but I keep it around 220. It is far better than the 350 lbs I was in 2009, so there is that. I never could stick with the gym thing. Road bikes are my superpower. That freedom beckons me.
I'm frugal and I like and take care of clothes I buy, it would suck to have to buy new stuff all the time, prefer to put money away to maybe if I'm lucky escape the rat race
You can use a cheap short, what is so expensive training in your opinion?
Endorphins